Tag: Financial Markets

In this working paper, Adair Turner et al. consider price movements in the oil trading markets between 2003 and 2010, and provide an analysis of factors which potentially explain the significant trends in this period. The authors also discuss the impact of different forms of oil price volatility and propose the type that matters most […]

The debate surrounding oil and gas reserves estimates has been addressed by two new briefing papers jointly issued by the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and the Sustainable Development Programme at Chatham House. The papers, Petroleum Reserves in Question by John Mitchell and Oil and Gas Reserves: Communication with the Financial Sector by Rob Arnott, […]

Keynes proposed that a ‘Commod Control’ agency be created after the Second World War to stabilise spot prices of key internationally traded commodities by systematically buying and selling physical buffer stocks. In this paper, the creation of a new Global Commodity Insurer (GCr) is discussed that would operate an international Commodity Price Insurance (CPQ scheme […]